I've been playing around with a 1.6A Northwood/MSI 645 Ultra for the last week and was having a rather frustrating time getting the system to run stable at faster clock settings. Typically the system would reset (freeze followed by a flash of blue and reboot) after a few minutes of running a CPU intensive application (Seti) The problem first seemed like a voltage issue but raising it to 1.7 had no effect whatsoever. Then heat could be the problem as the system would never crash immediately but take a period of time, it would usually take less time after the system was warmed up. Broke out the freeze spray and hosed down the CPU heatsink while running Seti, no difference still crash. Chill the Northbridge and any other MB component that might be overheating, no change. OK the hardware is not the problem.
Boot into safe mode (Win XP Home) run Seti and it runs fine. Open other programs with Seti running, this would crash the main system in a few seconds but it chuggs along at (144MHz FBS 2.3GHz CPU). Did this for an hour, no crash. OK it a driver as safe mode uses different drivers.
Boot into main system, use the disable driver function for the Nvidia 23.12 drivers installed, the system reboots with a VGA type driver, rerun the above test and everything is fine, no crashes regardless of what's running or how long.
My question is does anyone have an idea of what NV video driver to use that won't cause the system instability? The video card is the MSI G3 Ti200. I used the 23.12's as they were the latest digitally signed drivers but any stable driver would do at this point as the 60Hz refresh on these VGA drivers is killing my eyes.
Thanks for any info! - M.
Boot into safe mode (Win XP Home) run Seti and it runs fine. Open other programs with Seti running, this would crash the main system in a few seconds but it chuggs along at (144MHz FBS 2.3GHz CPU). Did this for an hour, no crash. OK it a driver as safe mode uses different drivers.
Boot into main system, use the disable driver function for the Nvidia 23.12 drivers installed, the system reboots with a VGA type driver, rerun the above test and everything is fine, no crashes regardless of what's running or how long.
My question is does anyone have an idea of what NV video driver to use that won't cause the system instability? The video card is the MSI G3 Ti200. I used the 23.12's as they were the latest digitally signed drivers but any stable driver would do at this point as the 60Hz refresh on these VGA drivers is killing my eyes.
Thanks for any info! - M.